Cinema's First Nasty Women
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Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set featuring rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick mayhem, and suggestive gender play. https://wfpp.columbia.edu/cinemas-first-nasty-women/ https://kinolorber.com/product/cinemas-fi
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The curators of Cinema's First Nasty Women presenting the annual Copley lecture on Silent Film Costume Design -- "DRESSED FOR CHAOS" -- at the Giornate del Cinema Muto! 🎊🎞️👗🧯 @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social #GCM44
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"This was an excellent lecture by Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçı aka The Nasty Women Collective which highlighted the tremendous importance of costume in the act of creating the chaos of comedy...I hadn’t expected to be so fascinated in the subject but that’s education for you."
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"The theme was Dressed for Chaos: Costumes, Nasty Women and Social Change. But what does that mean? Well, it means a fun, informative, often rousing hour in the company of silent comediennes, and three women who dearly love them." @hennefem.bsky.social @laurah.bsky.social
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It's almost time to DRESS FOR CHAOS (👗🧨) which is both a pro-tip and an accurate description of the NASTY WOMEN COSTUME LECTURE.. *today* at 6pm at the Giornate del Cinema Muto!! Co-delivered by CFNW curators Elif Kaynakci, @hennefem.bsky.social, & @laurah.bsky.social 🎞️🎊
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"There was more mischief to be had in the afternoon w/a triple-bill devoted to Louis Feuillade’s collaborations w/the elusive Léontine.." ⁉️🎞️🎈 Big day for Léontine! Powerful & dazzling line-up of screenings at #GCM44, chronicled brilliantly by @pamhutch.bsky.social

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Le Giornate del Cinema Muto 2025: Pordenone Post No 5
It may seem that the Giornate is in its own bubble, a hundred years or more removed from the real world, wrapped up in the fashions and the fads of the past. But we’re still looking out at th…
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Today Léontine will return to the Teatro Verdi in Pordenone!! 🤩 She raises a ruckus as Musidora's cook in a parody of Les Vampires directed by Feuillade -- followed by Jane Gaines' lecture on Imagining silent film history with only women..... ⁉️🎞️
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I was delighted to chat with Allison Tyra on @infinite-women.com about 'Death by Laughter,' Léontine, and feminist comedy as a catalyst for solidarity & resistance!! ❤️@columbiaup.bsky.social @nastysilents.bsky.social

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Bring it on, Monday… by Linda Darnell.
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A specter is haunting the #GCM44 book fair in Pordenone!! (Apparently Death by Laughter already sold out) 🎞️👻
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival program is out! Nov 12-16 at the Orinda Theater. I’ll be introducing Anna Ondry in SAXOPHONE SUZY. Come join me! #FilmSky

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Almost time for the Giornate del Cinema Muto / #SilentFilm Festival!!! If you can't make the journey to Pordenone, friendly reminder that there are daily screenings online with beautiful music. 🎞️🎶

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4 > 11 ottobre 2025
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